Long before Emma crashed back into Neal, Snowing were always borrowing magical cups of sugar from Rumple. Rumbelle doesn’t need separation arcs, they’ve got Snowing!
I agree with Jo that action was required and I liked that we saw Rumple really sort of understood where Neal came from, because it is where he is with Pan too. So while RC is good at that sad face, ultimately, Rumple ultimately realizes better than anyone what it is that Neal is going through when it comes to him.
I just hope they have conversations about this, and not sweep it to “offscreen”. Use the drama!
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass